These are short courses designed to cover a whole range of different types and applications of puppetry. They are fun, but with serious intent, and are not too arduous to follow a day at work. What is exciting about these courses? You will find a balance of traditional techniques, influenced by LSP contact with Yuki Muramatsu the Japanese puppeteer and LSP graduate. Otome puppetry and paper theatre feature in the classes. Puppetry and forum theatre has been explored by Jean Hammond, puppeteer, nurse and community health worker. Caroline Astell-Burt has been awarded an Arts and Humanities Research Council grant to write about the body of the puppeteer and techniques of operating puppets.
Courses
XTRA for Autumn Homophobia and Forum Theatre.
Homophobia. A project for a community. Old age, difference and prejudice. This project is based on moves to allow elderly lesbian, gay, bisexual and transsexual people to remain "out" in the care community. By using...
XTRA for AUTUMN Peer Education and Puppetry
This class is based on an LSP projected funded by Barclays Bank exploring the possibilities of young people making a performance as a focus for peer education about sexually transmitted diseases. Highlights Making Rod Puppets...
XTRA for Autumn Shadow Puppetry and Knife Crime
This course based on a recent project undertaken by WaxBaby Productions was created by the secondary school participants. Allowing the audience to both invent the action based on their own lives and interrogate the results,...